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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
ochreous, anterior and median tibia and tarsus with broad blackish - 
fuscous bands. Fore wing elongate, rather narrow, moderately dilated, 
broadest at 4 / 5 , costa little curved, apex obtusely pointed, termen faintly 
concave above, oblique. Pale ochreous-whitish, partially coarsely irrorated 
with tawny-brown, this irroration tending to form isolated spots; markings 
dark brown, costal markings blackish-brown. Base of costal edge blackish- 
brown ; costa with a row of rounded t ransverse dots alternating with minut e 
strigulae. Tawny-brown irroration forming an elongate spot on dorsum 
beyond base, running from this transversely across wing to below costa, 
thence forming a longitudinal more or less defined streak below costa 
gradually converging with costa, but not reaching costal edge and becoming 
paler posteriorly, connected with a tawny spot in apex; a longitudinal 
brownish -tawny patch along third fourth of disc below middle; a rather 
broad fuscous-tawny terminal blotch narrowed below, preceded by a 
vertical tawny streak interrupted above middle by a blackish -brown spot ; 
an inwardly oblique transverse blotch from 1 j a of dorsum to above fold, 
with top turning brownish -black and longitudinally extended above fold, 
preceded by blackish -brown irroration along fold, and tending to form an 
oblique transverse streak towards costa beyond base; middle of disc 
coarsely irrorated with blackish-fuscous, this colour slightly extended 
above fold posteriorly; a round blackish-fuscous spot above and before 
end of fold ; a row of irregular small dots and marks along dorsum, denser 
along posterior fourth of dorsum, extended along tornus to termen ; ground 
colour hardly obscured above dorsum posteriorly and above tornus, 
forming an outwardly curved transverse blotch beyond cell, parted by a 
minute, also curved, interrupted light tawny transverse strigula. Cilia pale 
fuscous, becoming sordid white towards base, sufFused with greyish- 
fuscous opposite apex; an interrupted blackish-fuscous antemedian line 
around apex, reduced to two small bars opposite middle of termen; a pair 
of paler dots in tornus. Hind wing and cilia glossy pale ochreous- 
whitish. 
Lake Habbema, 3250—3300 m, August 26, 1938. One specimen. Closely 
allied to H. conglomerates spec. nov. 
Hermenias dendrosema spec. nov. (fig. 347) 
SevSqov = a tree, affria = a mark 
^ 15—17 mm. Head whitish, face with sides and a small brush in middle 
above blackish, vertex with a long tuft of whitish hairs tinged brownish 
towards tips, covering scapes of antennae. Antenna with flagellum dark 
fuscous, becoming fuscous-blackish towards base, scape whitish. Palpus 
triangularly dilated; blackish, median segment slightly mixed with white 
in middle, a triangular white spot on middle of its upper edge; terminal 
segment whitish, partially concealed. Thorax pale ochreous-whitish, 
slightly sufFused with light fulvous-brownish, shoidder blackish. Abdomen 
